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…until now! Before moving to Italy in 2011, I’d been enjoying an Italian summer almost every year for about 10 years. I’ve lived the waves of tourist movements through the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre and parts of Sicily. But after travelling extensively around these areas, I felt the need to continue exploring and wanted to beach with the locals. So Puglia and Sardegna and even Lazio started making my love

As you would have gathered by now, my summer is being spent mainly in southern Italy. A tris of the southern regions of Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. We are two thirds of the way through having just spent four amazing days in Vieste, Puglia and five in Tropea, Calabria. I first visited the beautifully diverse region of Puglia two years ago. That time I explored the southern part, namely the

I just got back from two amazing weeks in Greece and Turkey. I had been to both before but it’s always great going back to a destination years later and having new experiences. In Turkey our group did a Turkish Gulet (traditional wooden boat) cruise around the Aegean coast from Fethiye, spent a weekend in Bodrum and then 4 days in Istanbul. You would have read my Santorini tales and

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Rome has this unique ability to make you love it one minute, hate it the next and then fall hopelessly in love with her all over again!
This blog is a fun way for me to keep family and friends updated on my travels and provide you all with some insight into what it’s like living the modern-day dolce vita!
In my (biased) opinion Rome is the most beautiful city in the world and I’m proud to call it home. Put quite simply, I absolutely HeartRome and these are my life and times in the eternal city.
Maria